Daily Kennebec journal., 1887-11-12
A COMPLETE HISTORY
OF the Chicago Anarchists, and
the Fiendish Outrage Of
Haymarket Square.
The Court that Tried, the Evidence that
Convicted, the Jury that Sentenced.
CHicAeo, Nov. IL.

CHIcAGo, Nov. IL.
A more striking procession of civic events
may never again be witnessed than the one
having its latest outcome to-day. The sup
posed absurlly theatrical demonstrations with
red banners aud black flags which took
place in the streets of Chicago not two win
tiers ago, followed soon afterwards by the pie
turesque, vet ominous. Sunday gatherings of
tatterlemalions, foreigners and demagogues
ON the broad common at the lake front are
now recalled as the quick forerunners of se-
cret cellar drillings by hundreds of ignorant,
fanatical rifemen in the purlieus throughout
the city Then came the cool, deliberate
dynamite experiments by carefully selected
masked representatives in the woods skirting
the suburbs. Later on secluded In the quiet
of downtown back rooms,
DARK CoNCLAvEs
of wild-idead, but brainy, unscrupulous lead
ers eagerly discussed as their 'long-coveted
opportunity the just-beginning development
of the workingman's concerted movement for
uniform eight-hour day.
How the gigantic, peaceful strikes were
turned into riots, how the entire world was
startled by the blood-chilling bomb massacre
in the haymarket, then the majestic State
trial, the amazing brayado of the one Ameri-
can defendant the horribly grotesque mar
rage of another one of the prisoners---eyery
detail of these strange occurrences and the
extraordinary train succeeding, now presents
itself again as if the whole had passed but
yesterday.
The keynote of it all is found in the plat
form of
TnE MNsrERIoUs l. A. A.
International Arbeiter (workingmen's) As
sociation---of which organization August
Spies and his seven co-dcfendants were lead
ing members and upholders. In the lnterna-
tional platform il is urged that 'the present
system under which property is owned by
individuals should be destroyed, and that all
capital which has been produced by labor
should be transformed into common property
by force" Eighty groups of this danger
Gus association existed in the United States,
chiefly at the great industrial centres, Chica-
go alone being the ill-starred possessor of
seven. Only portion of the members were
armed. yet the number of this class in Chi
cago exceeded 5000, every man of whom
attended regular military drills, had his own
rifle and revolver, and could obtain
DYNAMITE ANp BoMps
for the asking. The unarmcd members of
the groups were constantly in contact with
their armed brethren and in hearty SYM
pathy with their purposes and their
principles. 1t was this compact we'll
disciplined J. A. A. that had for its organs
three now noted newspapers. the Arbeiter
Ieitung, the Alarm and the Anarchist Ex-
cepting handsome youthful Louis Lingg,
who, though taking conspicuous part, was
a mere acting agent, each of
TmE EIGHr HAYMARKEr DEFENDANTS
was directly connected with one of these
papers.
August Spies, keen, cynical Hessian with
the subtle intellectual vgor of AN Iago, was
editor-in-chief of the 'Arbeiter. The jaunty,
daredevil little Texan Albert X. Parsons,
brother of Confederate General, presided
over the Alarm. At the head of the Anarch-
list, George Engel another Hessian, but of
coarse brutal type, out-Iieroded the most
blood thirsty uttcrances of his compeers
While Sam Fielden, the Englishman, sullen
looking, shaggy and forbidding, but as an
agitator simply volcanic, and Oscar Nee be,
the polished, attractive German American
organizer were more especially concerned in
other than journalistic branches of the prop
aganda, they were, nevertheless, among the
directors respectively of the Alarm and the
htbtlifI ItHuHR. Ut RHuUt bafnrlAn NIL
chael Schwab was Spies assistant editor and
his fellow countryman, Adoph Fischer he
of the poisoned dagger, was the Arbeiter's
head foreman.
Not one of these men---however they might
split hairs, could candidly deny that he was
instrumental to a greater or less degree in
helping on the catastrophe at the haymarket.
Of the legal guilt of each nothing need be
said further than that its certainty was put 10
tests seldom If ever paralleled.
During the long months preceding the
bomb-throwing the defendants one and all
were incessantly active in
AGITATiSG AND ORGANIZING
in demonstrations" and experiments.
Their speeches and articles fairly bristled
with impassioned appeals for the laborng
people to provide themselves with firearms
and dynamite. Specific instructions were
given how to handle and use the explosive.
and how to make bombs and how to procure
weapons. All this was stated by the con-
splrators TO be making ready for the coming
social revolution" What was meant by
social revolution was not left to be vaguely
inferred. nor was the time when it was to be
inangurated dim uncertainty of the future.
The revolution" was frequently defined in
speech and writiDgas a sudden, bloody, fore
ible upheayai of the right Of private owner
ship of property, then the bringing about of
state of society in which all property should
be held in common.
Incredible AZ it NAV seem. the avowed ,,.r-
pose was
To DELuGE THE Cry IN BLoop
of the property owning classes, first DESTROY
ing the ponce and militia, who were derided
as their special champions. The period of
confusion developing from the mammoth
d n traf uf
ntely announced months before as the time
when the fearful bolt should fall. Pitiless
az was this programme and difficult as a he
ilet Is that u ever was contemplated by men.
the facts as stated were abundantly proven in
court.
The diabolism was fully shared in by
women Especially so was this the case in
the
FANTASTIC PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS
ike the red flag possessions of ragamuffios
with torches that attempted at night TO enter
> the magnificent new Board of Trade when
the dedication festivities of the institution
had for the time being transformed the huge
building into scene of social ordnance
without local precedent. The repulsive,
blaspheming intruders of both sexes were
sternly forced back at the muzzles of three
dozen police revolvers. In the affairs like
this the dusky wlfe OF Parsons ana otner no
less desperate women seemed in their proper
= element OF the many other queer out
breaks preceding the haymarket tragedy, the
most startling at the time, perhaps, was the
parade Thanksgiving Day, when in ridicule
e of President Cleveland's proclamation nearly
/ a thousand uncouth men and women of the
slums, headed by banners of black and red,
IS traversed the choice residence avenues wildly
n yelling and scoffing at the well-dressed people
who crowded to the windows, anxious to learn
e the cause Of tumult.
n The city authorities affected for some rea-
son to ignore all ebullitions of the mob. As
a result of this
e OFFICIAL INDIFFERENCE,